Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and the interim chairman, Alliance on Surviving COVID-19 and Beyond, has revealed that more than 70 corpses of victims of security agents’ shooting during the #EndSARS protests in Lagos are yet to be claimed.
According to Falana, only about 20 families had come forward to claim bodies.
Falana stated that many people were not aware that their relatives had been killed, while some others might have left the “matter to God.”
He said, “About 98 dead bodies were dumped in various mortuaries out of which three were dumped there on October 20. However, less than 20 relatives have shown up at the mortuaries to identify their loved ones and take them for burial.
“Investigations by ASCAB show that people are quietly mourning their dead, and some are afraid. Others haven’t confirmed that they lost anybody. So far, less than 20 relatives have come to identify their loved ones. This is over a month after the announcement.
“Some didn’t know their loved ones were there. Some have accepted their fate as an act of God.”
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